Work about the emerging painters of the postmodernist generation of the last decade of the nineteenth century, called La Colla del Safrà (Joaquim Mir, Ramon Pichot, Isidre Nonell, Ricard Canals, Juli Vallmitjana, Adrià Gual and Joaquim Sunyer), name accepted by catalan art critic and historiography, from Raimon Casellas to Francesc Fontbona. Their landscape subjects during those early years of his careers -and beyond the color that defines their name and paintings- were the suburban keepsakes of Barcelona, a metropolis in expansion, showing the duality of a growing city debated between the rural area that surrounded it, the industry that coexisted with around, and its urban transformation. However, their individual aesthetic derivations, their influence on other later currents, and the newest sight on pictorial landscape that they achieved, were crucial in the evolution of catalan painting of the early twentieth century.

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